It amazes me that these religious types pick on a fifty year old song that is generally considered to be an anthem of peace to criticize. There are thousands of awful gangster rap songs out there advocating violence, sexual exploitation of women and drug abuse they could and maybe should be criticizing. These songs are actually influencing young people today. Lennon's song advocates nothing negative. It is merely a utopian dream in which all the superficial things that separate people are removed so we can live peacefully together without prejudice. You would have to be a very narrow minded person to take offence at it. Only religion could elicit this kind of response to what is a essentially a positive sentiment
Nope, quite the opposite - what's expressed in the song is THE greatest evil. He wants there to be no God and no religion. It's crystal clear and no getting away from that. That's such a HUGE wish, that it must be the main one by definition. And that puts him anathema, i.e. outside 'the circle', the circle of God's realm, into eternal damnation. His choice. And the choice of those who follow such ideas. That's always the problem with leftist philosophies. They dream of perfection in an imperfect world, even if it has to be had by force and against the odds of human nature and human inevitable shortcomings, at the same time denying the only perfection that ACTUALLY exists - God, but that will become fully known NOT in this world. So the only chance they got they turn down, for the sake of a non-existing chance. It's a backwards and upside-down God-hating sense of reality that is tragically and completely false.
@@comment6864 This has to be the most ludicrously hysterical reply to a post I've ever had. "what's expressed in the song is THE greatest evil." ARE YOU FOR REAL!!! In the song, Lennon doesn't express a WANT for anything. He merely asks us to imagine. Tell me what is evil about imagining something? Can you prove that there is such a thing as "God's realm" or "eternal damnation"? Explain to me what is wrong with "a dream of perfection in an imperfect world"? You rant on to say, "even if it has to be had by force." Please point out the line in the song where Lennon advocates using force? Again, prove that God is the only perfection that ACTUALLY exists? It was hard to know where to begin in answering this ridiculous and incoherent diatribe. Quite clearly, people like yourself, the Pastor in the video and Bishop Robert Barron are spooked by the notion that a song which imagines a world without your unproven beliefs has gained such cultural traction. Well get used to it. Religion has had its day. Go find a really negative song to criticize.
Colin, your analysis is superb. My opinion is that these critics are jealous that John Lennon was far more popular than they'll ever be. Lennon's song was a thought experiment that these zealots are taking to its illogical extreme, for the sake of propagandizing. If his critics have freedom of speech, then so did Mr. Lennon. They disparage him for beating his wife, when he admitted that crime back in 1967 through his song "Getting Better." Then he was shot in the back by a Christian. Maybe they feel guilty because his death proved Christians are more violent than atheists? Nope, I can't "imagine" that.
@@comment6864 Wouldn't any creator god have created a perfect world, instead of such an imperfect fabrication? And try to refrain from quoting the Torah. If I wanted an explanation of ancient Jewish texts, I'd ask a Jew, not a schismatic Christian.
It amazes me that these religious types pick on a fifty year old song that is generally considered to be an anthem of peace to criticize. There are thousands of awful gangster rap songs out there advocating violence, sexual exploitation of women and drug abuse they could and maybe should be criticizing. These songs are actually influencing young people today. Lennon's song advocates nothing negative. It is merely a utopian dream in which all the superficial things that separate people are removed so we can live peacefully together without prejudice. You would have to be a very narrow minded person to take offence at it. Only religion could elicit this kind of response to what is a essentially a positive sentiment
Nope, quite the opposite - what's expressed in the song is THE greatest evil. He wants there to be no God and no religion. It's crystal clear and no getting away from that. That's such a HUGE wish, that it must be the main one by definition. And that puts him anathema, i.e. outside 'the circle', the circle of God's realm, into eternal damnation. His choice. And the choice of those who follow such ideas. That's always the problem with leftist philosophies. They dream of perfection in an imperfect world, even if it has to be had by force and against the odds of human nature and human inevitable shortcomings, at the same time denying the only perfection that ACTUALLY exists - God, but that will become fully known NOT in this world. So the only chance they got they turn down, for the sake of a non-existing chance. It's a backwards and upside-down God-hating sense of reality that is tragically and completely false.
@@comment6864 This has to be the most ludicrously hysterical reply to a post I've ever had. "what's expressed in the song is THE greatest evil." ARE YOU FOR REAL!!! In the song, Lennon doesn't express a WANT for anything. He merely asks us to imagine. Tell me what is evil about imagining something? Can you prove that there is such a thing as "God's realm" or "eternal damnation"? Explain to me what is wrong with "a dream of perfection in an imperfect world"? You rant on to say, "even if it has to be had by force." Please point out the line in the song where Lennon advocates using force? Again, prove that God is the only perfection that ACTUALLY exists? It was hard to know where to begin in answering this ridiculous and incoherent diatribe. Quite clearly, people like yourself, the Pastor in the video and Bishop Robert Barron are spooked by the notion that a song which imagines a world without your unproven beliefs has gained such cultural traction. Well get used to it. Religion has had its day. Go find a really negative song to criticize.
Colin, your analysis is superb. My opinion is that these critics are jealous that John Lennon was far more popular than they'll ever be. Lennon's song was a thought experiment that these zealots are taking to its illogical extreme, for the sake of propagandizing. If his critics have freedom of speech, then so did Mr. Lennon. They disparage him for beating his wife, when he admitted that crime back in 1967 through his song "Getting Better." Then he was shot in the back by a Christian. Maybe they feel guilty because his death proved Christians are more violent than atheists? Nope, I can't "imagine" that.
@@comment6864 Wouldn't any creator god have created a perfect world, instead of such an imperfect fabrication? And try to refrain from quoting the Torah. If I wanted an explanation of ancient Jewish texts, I'd ask a Jew, not a schismatic Christian.
@@ANDROLOMA Thank you, and keep dreaming for all those who seem unable to